Matheus Rocha Pitta

Born in 1980 in Tiradentes, Brasil
Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Matheus Rocha Pitta’s interests and strategy resides in a critical enunciation on the exchange mechanisms that rules ordinary life. The artist is driven by the wish to explore and exhibit the commodity – anything produced by human labour and towards which there is an unswerving desire to possess – as an indication of the paradoxes that such interchanges contain or engender

CIRCULAR is a sculpture made for the exhibition Travessias, the inaugural group show in Bela Maré, a former warehouse that has become Complexo da Maré’s – one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest slums – first cultural center.

CIRCULAR is a sculpture made for the exhibition Travessias, the inaugural group show in Bela Maré, a former warehouse that has become Complexo da Maré’s – one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest ...

Travessias, Rio de Janeiro

CIRCULAR

CIRCULAR is a sculpture made for the exhibition Travessias, the inaugural group show in Bela Maré, a former warehouse that has become Complexo da Maré’s – one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest slums – first cultural center.

CIRCULAR is a sculpture made for the exhibition Travessias, the inaugural group show in Bela Maré, a former warehouse that has become Complexo da Maré’s – one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest ...

Travessias, Rio de Janeiro

CIRCULAR

CIRCULAR is a sculpture made for the exhibition Travessias, the inaugural group show in Bela Maré, a former warehouse that has become Complexo da Maré’s – one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest slums – first cultural center.

CIRCULAR is a sculpture made for the exhibition Travessias, the inaugural group show in Bela Maré, a former warehouse that has become Complexo da Maré’s – one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest ...

Travessias, Rio de Janeiro

CIRCULAR

CIRCULAR is a sculpture made for the exhibition Travessias, the inaugural group show in Bela Maré, a former warehouse that has become Complexo da Maré’s – one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest slums – first cultural center.

CIRCULAR is a sculpture made for the exhibition Travessias, the inaugural group show in Bela Maré, a former warehouse that has become Complexo da Maré’s – one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest ...

Travessias, Rio de Janeiro

CIRCULAR

CIRCULAR is a sculpture made for the exhibition Travessias, the inaugural group show in Bela Maré, a former warehouse that has become Complexo da Maré’s – one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest slums – first cultural center.

CIRCULAR is a sculpture made for the exhibition Travessias, the inaugural group show in Bela Maré, a former warehouse that has become Complexo da Maré’s – one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest ...

Travessias, Rio de Janeiro

CIRCULAR

CIRCULAR is a sculpture made for the exhibition Travessias, the inaugural group show in Bela Maré, a former warehouse that has become Complexo da Maré’s – one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest slums – first cultural center.

CIRCULAR is a sculpture made for the exhibition Travessias, the inaugural group show in Bela Maré, a former warehouse that has become Complexo da Maré’s – one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest ...

Travessias, Rio de Janeiro

CIRCULAR

CIRCULAR is a sculpture made for the exhibition Travessias, the inaugural group show in Bela Maré, a former warehouse that has become Complexo da Maré’s – one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest slums – first cultural center.

CIRCULAR is a sculpture made for the exhibition Travessias, the inaugural group show in Bela Maré, a former warehouse that has become Complexo da Maré’s – one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest ...

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Fish Eye 2009

253 digital photographs animated in flash (34 min)

wood, monitor, dvd player 400 x 210 x 70 cm 2009

wood, monitor, dvd player 400 x 210 x 70 cm 2009

Fish Eye 2009

253 digital photographs animated in flash (34 min)

wood, monitor, dvd player 400 x 210 x 70 cm 2009

wood, monitor, dvd player 400 x 210 x 70 cm 2009

Channel # 1

photography 90 x 90 cm 2010

Six fake bottoms are sculpted in a tv monitor. Each photo- graph is a “slice” or a fake bottom of this television filled with hidden money.

Six fake bottoms are sculpted in a tv monitor. Each photo- graph is a “slice” or a fake bottom of this television filled with hidden money.

Channel # 1

photography 90 x 90 cm 2010

Six fake bottoms are sculpted in a tv monitor. Each photo- graph is a “slice” or a fake bottom of this television filled with hidden money.

Six fake bottoms are sculpted in a tv monitor. Each photo- graph is a “slice” or a fake bottom of this television filled with hidden money.